{"id":583855,"date":"2025-11-21T03:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T03:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/583855\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T03:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T03:14:13","slug":"las-vegas-grand-prix-2025-mclarens-of-lando-norris-and-oscar-piastri-struggle-as-charles-leclerc-fastest-in-first-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/583855\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Grand Prix 2025: McLarens of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri struggle as Charles Leclerc fastest in first practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Williams&#8217; Carlos Sainz was fifth, while Racing Bulls&#8217; Isack Hadjar took seventh with his final lap of the session. Mercedes&#8217; George Russell was ninth, ahead of team-mate Kimi Antonelli and Ferrari&#8217;s Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Norris took to the escape road at Turn 14 at the end of Las Vegas&#8217; famous Strip twice on consecutive laps as he fought to find pace in his McLaren.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also hit the wall early in the session, although he escaped without damaging the car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Piastri, 24 points behind the Briton at the head of the championship, had his off-track moment at Turns Eight and Nine around the Sphere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Australian was 0.192secs slower than Norris, continuing the performance trend between the two in most recent races.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Norris has gained 58 points on Piastri in the past six races, to take control of the season and put himself within sniffing distance of the championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leclerc was quick all session, but Hamilton ended up 0.759secs behind his team-mate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The session is unlikely to be representative of the rest of the weekend as the track is so dirty and will improve as the sessions tick by.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Second practice is at 04:00 GMT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Williams&#8217; Carlos Sainz was fifth, while Racing Bulls&#8217; Isack Hadjar took seventh with his final lap of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-583855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115585513113410154","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}